The story of Candida auris starts in 2009, when a 70-year-old Japanese woman is a patient at the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital. Something discharges from one of her ears, and the doctors ...

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a yeast that might be used to prevent invasive candidiasis, a major cause of death in hospitalized and immunocompromised patients. The ...

Could baker’s yeast injections protect against one of the deadliest infections in the world? New research seems to indicate yes. The fungus Aspergillus is the cause of aspergillosis, the leading ...

Scientists have hit a major milestone in a 15-year project trying to build a completely synthetic yeast genome. Reporting in a bumper crop of new papers, the team has engineered viable yeast cells ...

They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do their life’s ...

Fungal systems biology is the scientific study of the functions and properties of fungi in an integrative, systematic way, based on the analysis and modelling of large data sets. Fungal systems ...

Many years of effort have been spent mapping the mechanisms that underlie yeast metabolism, because of the tremendous potential they hold as producers of clinical therapeutics. That project is finally ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The microbes can be turned into cannabinoid factories that help meet rising demand for marijuana The microbes can ...

Scientists have given yeast a brand new ability – gaining energy from light. The technique was remarkably easy, the team says, and could not only help us understand evolution but make better beer and ...

The headphones are gorgeous. The headband glows in a Dieter Rams white. Chestnut-colored leather cups your ears. It’s hard to believe that I’m looking at something that’s been produced by yeast, ...